idoneous \ahy-DOH-nee-uhs\, adjective:
- Appropriate; fit; suitable; apt.
Idoneous is derived from the Latin word idōneus which meant "suitable."
501k
- When one's economic situation has become so tenuous that their entire net worth is in the pockets of their jeans.
Sorry, bro, can't go drinking tonight, the wife raided my 501k.
History
- Guy Fawkes: was hanged for his part in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament and kill the king of England (1606)
- first US Social Security check: the sum of $22.54 was received by Ida May Fuller, who had paid three years of payroll taxes; she lived to 100, collecting a total of $22,888.92 from Social Security (1940)
- Great Flood of 1953: tidal surge killed thousands and affected shorelines in the UK and the Netherlands
- Explorer I: the US launched its first Earth satellite, whose mission was to detect cosmic rays (1958)
- McDonald's: first opened in the Soviet Union, in Moscow (1990)
Birthdays
- Franz Shubert 1797
- Zane Grey 1872
- Irving Langmuir 1881
- Anna Pavlova 1882
- Eddie Cantor (Iskowitz) 1892
- Freya Stark 1893
- Tallulah Bankhead 1902
- Jersey Joe Walcott 1914
- Garry Moore 1915
- Frank Parker (Paikowski) 1916
- Jackie Robinson 1919
- John Agar 1921
- Mario Lanza 1921
- Joanne Dru (LaCock) 1923
- Chuck Willis 1928
- Jean Simmons 1929
- Norman Mailer 1929
- Ernie Banks 1931
- James Franciscus 1934
- Suzanne Pleshette 1937
- Queen Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard (Netherlands) 1938
- Stuart Margolin 1940
- Richard Gephardt 1941
- Jessica Walter 1944
- Charlie Musselwhite 1944
- Terry Kath (Chicago) 1946
- Nolan Ryan 1947
- Harry Wayne Casey (KC and the Sunshine Band) 1951
- Johnny "Rotten" Lydon (The Sex Pistols) 1956
- Shirley Babashoff 1957
- Kelly Lunch 1959
- Anthony LaPaglia 1959
- Lloyd Cole (Lloyd Cole and The Commotions) 1961
- John Dye 1963
- Al Jaworski (Jesus Jones) 1966
- Minnie Driver 1971
- Portia de Rossi 1973
- Justin Timberlake ('N Sync) 1981
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